Yes, it's evolved into a steaming mess which people still believe is based on some pure idea of what is REST and what isn't, whereas what this article argues, i.e. that we're completely wrong about that, clears up a lot of things for me because if we were really basing this on something that had been fully thought out and fully comprehended and explained why is it that I've spent ten years writing "RESTful" APIs and ever once even heard of Fielding, let alone Fielding's dissertation, and never, ever, ever have I been able to find something which explained what "RESTful" actually means in terms that related to what anybody was actually trying to do with it.

I've been arguing for a while that we should stop pretending. I'm glad I'm not the only one.